Cannot boot

[Jun Zhang_4]

Ignited 11i with vxvm, played with mirror creation and removal a few times, got error messages such as the boot area for standvol mirror not locatable (or something like that), and then I found I was at the ISL> prompt. Tried to boot, got the following message,

ISL> hpux

Boot
: disc(56/52.5.0;0)/stand/vmunix
disc(56/52.5.0;0)/stand/vmunix: cannot open, or not executable

Jun

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi Jun,

Try booting from the other path. ( Pri or alt) ( sea ipl )

HTH,

Gideon

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Jun,

Try this link. This is for 11.0 and 10.x, but it might help.

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000065950654

The doc id is KBRC00000994

you probably messed up the BRDA on the root disk.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[SS_6]

ISL > hpux /stand/vmunix.prev
hit enter

[Jun Zhang_4]

I tried the few things suggested. Now I'm reinstalling everything. Thanks for the replies.

Jun

[Larry Hyde]

I had a similar problem. Somehow my boot info was messed up. Do this:

lvlnboot -v

The response should look something like this:

Boot Definitions for Volume Group /dev/vg00:
Physical Volumes belonging in Root Volume Group:
/dev/dsk/c2t2d0 (0/0/2/0.2.0) -- Boot Disk
/dev/dsk/c1t2d0 (0/0/1/1.2.0) -- Boot Disk
Boot: lvol1 on: /dev/dsk/c2t2d0
/dev/dsk/c1t2d0
Root: lvol3 on: /dev/dsk/c2t2d0
/dev/dsk/c1t2d0
Swap: lvol2 on: /dev/dsk/c2t2d0
/dev/dsk/c1t2d0
Dump: lvol2 on: /dev/dsk/c2t2d0, 0

If you are missing the Boot record for your mirror, this may be the problem.

[Kent Ostby]

I believe that booting with:

hpux -vm

would get you booted up into the mode that you wanted to look at your standvol to see if it was set correctly.

Best regards,

Kent M. Ostby